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sam christie

United Kingdom
3099 Posts

Posted - 23/01/2015 : 09:06:01

Not a VA but one of the larger models in the range. A super picture Graham. Many thanks.

When I began this thread I really had the OHC Triple-M era in mind.

Sam

Mike the M

United Kingdom
481 Posts

Posted - 23/01/2015 : 17:27:21

I think they are SAs, but the three spoke steering wheels are strange, but could be for the 1939 season.
VA

Mike Dalby

sam christie

United Kingdom
3099 Posts

Posted - 16/02/2015 : 00:27:00

This thread completely unraveled the instant it started.

The question was very simple and intended to be strictly about MG Triple-M car production . It was not about the detail in the pictures except in as much as they show what was being produced. I am sorry the images clearly caused only confusion.

One image shows a testing area with a mixture of models in a parking area in the background - but this is not the assembly/production line.

Is it possible nobody alive actually knows how many production lines MG had in the Triple-M OHC period? Is it possible there are no surviving pictures of six cylinder OHC MG's on a (the) production line?

Build dates for the J2 (quoted in Octagon Heaven under Production Data 162) seem amazingly erratic. I know it is almost inconceivable but is it possible the line switched to batches of different models from time to time? That would have been interesting to work on but impossibly inefficient .

Sam

Edited by - sam christie on 16/02/2015 00:31:19

Matthew Magilton

Australia
179 Posts

Posted - 19/02/2015 : 08:52:42

I am not sure if this 6 Cyl MG is actually on a production line.

Matthew.

sam christie

United Kingdom
3099 Posts

Posted - 19/02/2015 : 11:25:03

Brilliant! Right on target at last! I had lost all hope. What a fabulous picture!

The foreground cars look like J's to me but that car on the right in the background really does look six cylinder. There is even a set of six pistons and rods on the bench. Look at those cars on the upper floor too!

Is it possible six and four cylinder cars really were mixed together on the same production line? I so, no wonder J2 production figures were so erratic.

Sam

Drolshagen

Germany
669 Posts

Posted - 19/02/2015 : 12:08:23

Hi Sam,
there are not pistons and rods on the bench,that are gearbox
remotes - makes more sense than pistons and rods at this stage of
production.
Carl
J2 4362
L2 2036

sam christie

United Kingdom
3099 Posts

Posted - 19/02/2015 : 12:33:25

Ah! They do look rather large. Yes they are clearly remotes for fitting to the J's in the foreground.

From the other angle (going back to the first picture of D-types) the cars in the background must be on the production line 'rails' . All this suggests one main assembly area for production cars and one line (in parallel three lengths).

I have marked the area where I think the camera was facing in Matthew's photograph.

Presumably specially prepared cars were assembled the old fashioned way in a completely separate area.

Now some clever person can integrate the build dates for MG's of this era and explain why lots of J2's appeared one week and very few another.

Thanks Matthew.

Sam

Edited by - sam christie on 19/02/2015 12:34:04

sven

Sweden
431 Posts

Posted - 19/02/2015 : 17:09:16

Hi Sam
The photo will have been taken before May 21 in 1933. What!! I can sense everybody saying. The cars have petrolifts and I agree that the back line ones are L types.
L types had petrolifts before L2039 which was completed on that day and now resides in my garage. The L type in the photo is a 4 seat L1 tourer, but I think the change over of petrol pumps must be very close in time.
The bodies were delivered in batches from Carbodies as outlined in Phil Jennings From Oxford to Abingdon.

Regards
Sven

tholden

United Kingdom
1638 Posts

Posted - 19/02/2015 : 22:01:28

Matthew that is a lovely picture. Don't think I have seen it before. Is there a caption with it ? Just wondered what the occasion was ?

TH

Matthew Magilton

Australia
179 Posts

Posted - 23/02/2015 : 05:05:42

I wish I tell you more about the picture but its just one I grabbed off the internet one day. Sorry. Hopefully someone else has the gen on this.

Matthew.

sam christie

United Kingdom
3099 Posts

Posted - 23/02/2015 : 11:43:15

I found a copy of the picture in this article -

http://www.namgar.com/articles/article/mga_history/mg_comes_to_abingdon_part_1/

�..so presumably someone has a higher resolution copy. Has anyone any connection with the NAMGAR ?

John Libbert

USA
211 Posts

Posted - 23/02/2015 : 16:01:55

Sam,

I just posted a reply in the "Seeking information about a picture" forum for the posting about the "M type Monte Carlo Rally" post. I'm a member of NAMGAR and will try to find out what I can about the different pictures in the article.

Best regards,

John

sam christie

United Kingdom
3099 Posts

Posted - 28/02/2015 : 11:11:02

Thanks John.

One wonders how many pictures packed with information still await discovery. I found this one on the internet. Are these C-types ? If they are it seems even specialised models moved along what appears to be the same production line.

Sam

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